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Shoulder to the Wind a Lyrical Evocation of the Bogong High Plains Shoulder to the Wind A lyrical evocation of the Bogong High Plains NOELENE J KELLY Dip. Teach. Prim, Christ College B. Theol, Melbourne College of Divinity MA (Communication), Victoria University School of Communication and the Arts Faculty of Arts, Education and Human Development Victoria University Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. March 2013 ii Abstract This thesis comes in two parts.1 In the first instance it is a journey into the space and light, the wetlands and the wildflowers, the rocks and creatures and winds of the high plateau region of Australia’s south-east corner. Within this elongated spine of high country rise the Bogong High Plains, a series of peaks and sub-alpine grasslands bordered by forests of snow gum and alpine ash. These High Plains are the subject of this thesis. What you will find here is creative in form. It is composed of a series of personal and place-based essays in the nature writing tradition. While these lyrical essays arise from my own extensive engagement with the High Plains, they attempt an ecological perspective; they endeavour to write the High Plains over time and from multiple viewpoints, including those of Aboriginal custodians and geological scientists, cattlemen and ecologists, as well as my own phenomenal experience. Mostly, they are a response—protective, celebratory, artful, tinctured at times with grief and loss and, perhaps more frequently, with amazement—to a rare and increasingly threatened place. These creative essays are accompanied by an exegetical reflection that contextualises the creative work and examines a range of issues and discourses which either arose from or impinged upon the work as it took shape. These include a number of concerns that may best be framed as questions. Can a text ever be said to ‘represent’ the Earth? How does a place-based work bring into view the global context within which all places are now situated? In what ways does nature writing and ecocritical theory support and advance a re-positioning of the human—and a re-positioning of the literature human beings may produce—in relation to the natural world? And how may 1 This includes a creative component of approximately 57,000 words and an exegetical component of approximately 37,000 words. iii such concerns best be engaged with in the Australian context, by a non-indigenous writer, on a continent in which Aboriginal peoples retain custodial and sacramental relationships with these sacred geographies? Beneath these questions, motivating and animating both components of the thesis, lies another, perhaps more fundamental, concern. In these increasingly perilous ecological times, how might a writer best serve the Earth and that larger order of things on which all species depend, from which all things emerge, and in which all things participate? These nature essays, this exegetical reflection, partial and provisional as they may be, embody my response. iv Doctor of Philosophy Declaration I, Noelene J Kelly, declare that the PhD thesis entitled Shoulder to the Wind: a lyrical evocation of the Bogong High Plains is no more than 100,000 words in length including quotes and exclusive of tables, figures, appendices, bibliography, references and footnotes. This thesis contains no material that has been submitted previously, in whole or in part, for the award of any other academic degree or diploma. Except where otherwise indicated, this thesis is my own work. Signature Date v Acknowledgements My thanks to Associate Professor Barbara Brook from Victoria University for her encouragement and early supervision of this thesis. Dr Bronwyn Cran of Victoria University and Associate Professor Kate Rigby of Monash University have provided exemplary guidance through the creative and theoretical terrain of this thesis. Their enthusiasm for this project has been sustained and their generosity unstinting. I thank them for their wise counsel, for the breadth of their scholarship, and for their deep affinity with this land and its First Peoples. To my parents, Bernie and Marge, who believed so passionately in education. May this thesis honour the sacrifices they made in bringing the gift of education to each of their children. I thank my family, my friends, and my EarthWomen sisters for their interest and encouragement over the long haul, and for their generous intellectual support. My thanks to Jen, Rhonda and Jan in particular, and to Michael—Mazel Tov (Musseltov!!), always. Dhudhuroan Elder Gary Murray extended to me enormous personal and cultural generosity. I thank him for his rich sharing of knowledge and his sustained defence of his country. My thanks to John Bainbridge for his invitation to participate in a sacred journey. My thanks also for his trust in allowing the story of that journey to be told. Dr Henrik Wahren of La Trobe University willingly shared his time and his professional knowledge. He also provided critical comments on a number of the creative essays. I thank him for his generosity and his vigorous advocacy on behalf of Australia’s alpine region. Deep thanks to my partner Pat Long whose personal and practical support has been crucial—in every large and small way imaginable—to the realisation of this project. When it was still a long way off, she could visualise the finish line. Her open heart, her commitment to the Earth, her careful reading of many drafts, and her presence with me in that beautiful Bogong country, have enabled the richest possible context for the development—the emergence—of this thesis. And now, to the painting! My ultimate debt of course is to Bogong High Plains, that high, beautiful, fragile place. May I listen always for its winds. vi Publications I extend my thanks to the editors who made helpful suggestions and accepted for publication the following versions of work developed in this thesis: 1. Kelly, NJ 2012, ‘Eyes of the Future’, EarthSong: Ecology, Spirituality and Education (forthcoming, autumn edition). 2. Kelly, NJ 2011/2012, ‘Singing up the Silences: Disruption and Invocation in Australian Nature Writing’, AJE: Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology, vol. 1, pp.18-26. 3. Kelly, NJ 2010, ‘Still Country: Continuity and Change in a Warming World’, PAN: Philosophy Activism Nature, no.7, pp. 33-38. Other Publications 1. Kelly, NJ 2011, ‘Fisherman’, EarthSong: Ecology, Spirituality and Education, vol. 2, no. 2. spring, pp. 10-1. 2. Kelly, NJ 2010, ‘Xerophilia: Ecocritical Exploration in Southwestern Literature; Review Article’, PAN: Philosophy Activism Nature, no.7, pp. 120-121.. 3. Kelly, NJ 1995, Circles of Blessing: Stories of Lyndale/Kilmaire, Spectrum, Melbourne. vii For Tina Marjie Hannah and for the children who live in the waters, soils and skies of the Bogong High Plains viii Table of Contents Abstract…………………………………………………………………………... iii Student Declaration………………………………………………………………. v Acknowledgements………………………………………………………………. vi List of Publications……………………………………………………………….. vii Dedication………………………………………………………………………… viii Shoulder to the Wind. Lyric Essays Map of the Alpine National Park……………………………………………………. 1 Map of The Bogong High Plains and Mt Hotham Area…………………………….. 2 Map of The Bogong High Plains near Rocky Valley Reservoir…………………….. 3 1. Shoulder to the Wind. An Introduction……………………………………………… 4 2. Geomorphology……………………………………………………………………… 14 3. Maisie Fawcett………………………………………………………………………. 24 4. Consummatum Est.………………………………………………………………….. 41 5. Storm………………………………………………………………………………… 51 6. Rocks………………………………………………………………………………… 61 7. The Issue of Love……………………………………………………………………. 74 8. The Mountain………………………………………………………………………… 80 9. Still Country………………………………………………………………………….. 99 10. The Art of Breadmaking……………………………………………………………... 108 11. Eagle…………………………………………………………………………………. 126 12. Winds of Homecoming………………………………………………………………. 133 13. Fire…………………………………………………………………………………… 142 14. Eyes of the Future……………………………………………………………………. 156 ix Shoulder to the Wind. Exegesis Of Words and World. An Introduction………………………………………………… 166 Chapter One. The Text and World…………………………………………………….. 171 Chapter Two. Writing Nature………………………………………………………….. 206 Chapter Three. ‘Singing Up’ the Silences……………………………………………... 242 Return to Love. A Conclusion…………………………………………………………. 272 References……………………………………………………………………………… 280 x Shoulder to the Wind Lyric Essays 0 Australian Alps National Parks 1 Map of the Bogong High Plains and Mt Hotham Area2 2 Slattery, D 1998, Australian Alps: Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks, National Parks Field Guides, UNSW Press, Sydney. 2 Map of the Bogong High Plains around Rocky Valley Reservoir3 3 The Centre for Applied Alpine Ecology 2008, The Alpine Ecology Course:Course Notes, La Trobe University, Melbourne. 3 1. Shoulder to the Wind An Introduction Let me begin with a description. Beside my bed in my inner city home is an antique cupboard. In its drawers are faded sarongs from Bali, hand woven shirts from Oaxaca and San Cristobel, well worn jumpers from Carlton. On top of the cupboard, among bottles of perfume and bits of jewellery, is a photograph, dog-eared and dusty from too many years without a frame. In the photograph a spider’s web is suspended between two branches. Each silk of the web is weighted by a line of water droplets. It’s clear the rains have been. The tree hosting these threads of watery pearls is an aged snow gum. Its multiple trunks rise in clusters from submerged lignotubers. The trunk in the foreground is calcified, its bark brittle and beginning to lift from the
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